A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

One canceled NBC series is about to find a home on an entirely different platform. NBC’s loss might become Netflix’s gain as the world’s most popular streaming service picks up missing-persons series ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

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A half-billion-year-old fossil was found with intact internal organs, including its brain. 3D models revealed detailed anatomy; the fossil represents an early arthropod ancestor. Discovery aids ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...